The Giants-Dodgers Game 5 NLDS Matchup, Houston's ALDS Dominance & Atlanta's Path to the World Series
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the Game 5 matchup between the Dodgers and Giants, Houston's dominance (and the White Sox short list of flaws despite their elimination), and Atlanta's chances to advance through the NLCS against the winner of Dodgers-Giants.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels presented by Topps Checkout Topps Project, 70, celebrating 70 years of Topps baseball cards. |
| 0:23.4 | Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris, it is Thursday, October 14th. |
| 0:28.5 | We are here against all odds, against all coffee spills, against all, well, it's not a time change right now. |
| 0:34.6 | It's just being in a... |
| 0:35.3 | Hotel situations. |
| 0:36.8 | Yes, yes. Hotel Internet is always a gamble for podcasts, live shows, all of the above. But we are here. And I have the motor skills of a toddler. As I've learned many times, I often spill coffees on my desk. And today it was one of those days right before we were supposed to go live, which is very convenient. |
| 0:56.6 | Yeah, so how has everything going? |
| 0:57.4 | You made it. |
| 0:58.1 | You're in Arizona. |
| 0:59.2 | You've seen baseball. |
| 0:59.9 | That's great. |
| 1:01.6 | Yes, it was fun. |
| 1:04.1 | AFL baseball is amazing. |
| 1:07.4 | It's so strange. |
| 1:09.7 | They're all wearing their own uniforms. So, you know, like there's, it seems like |
| 1:13.1 | it's always an all-star game. There's no concept of team at all because they're all from |
| 1:21.2 | different teams and they frankly don't really care if they win or lose. All they want to do is |
| 1:25.6 | Homer or strike the guys out. And they're all |
| 1:29.7 | kind of there to increase their innings, increase their plate appearances, add to the season, |
| 1:36.1 | maybe showcase themselves for a trade. But the big get last night was talking to Tristan Cassis |
| 1:43.5 | and then watching him launch one deep into the night. |
| 1:47.5 | But I also enjoyed talking to Mr. Lars Knutbar and a few other guys for a story I'm doing down here. |
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